Current Research

My research is broadly interested in the relationship between feminist theories articulated in the archive of the womyn’s land movement (broadly construed) and Black, Indigenous, and queer-feminist concepts of property, sovereignty, and solidarity. I am also interested in constructions of rurality and its temporalit(ies) as well as the aesthetic lives of radicalisms in the mid- to late-twentieth century. Outside of my scholarly life, I sometimes write about the politics of my home state of West Virginia for fun :)

Scholarly Publications

Inheriting Womyn’s Land: ‘Thinking-With’ Feminist Lineages in a Messy Archive

Feminist Theory Summer 2025 Special Issue on Intergenerational Feminisms. https://doi.org/10.1177/14647001251327974

This article reads an archive of recently-digitized home movies from Rootworks — a womyn’s land community in Josephine County, Oregon — alongside scholarship from Queer and Trans Studies, arguing for a methodological intervention in feminist thought and practice that centers nonlinear modes of inheritance as a way of understanding how to engage with troubled feminist lineages.

Forthcoming | Out on Rural Lands: Country Queer Dis/Orientation and the Potentialities of Loneliness

Accepted and in press with QED: A Journal of Queer Worldmaking.

In this article, I read Radclyffe Hall’s early lesbian novel The Well of Loneliness (1928) as a rural text. Drawing from growing academic and non-academic discourse around the relationship between queerness and rurality, I argue for the importance of understanding the more-than-human world as a constitutive element of country queer self-identification and orientation.

The Women Activists Found Little Peace at Bucolic School”: Utopian Dreams, Radical Feminist Nightmares, and the Pedagogical Potential of Sagaris

Editor-reviewed chapter in Utopian Imaginings: Saving the Future in the Present, edited by Victoria Wolcott. SUNY Press, 2024. Open Access Link.

In summer 1975, a group of some of the United States’s most famous radical feminists gathered in rural Vermont for the inaugural Sagaris Institute. Intended to serve as a university and training ground for the next wave of feminist revolution, the Institute instead ended in division, falling apart by summer’s end. This essay explores some of the quietly-kept history of Sagaris, arguing for the potentialities that remain in the archive of its failure.